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All in the Neighborhood: Part 1: Directed by Matthew Diamond. With Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman. At Elyse's suggestion, Steven's black coworker Gus and his family move in across the street, but are met with resistance. After their family is threatened, the Keatons try to reason with neighbors and have Gus stay.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Matthew Diamond
- 1989-03-12
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"All in the Neighborhood, Pt. 1" is the seventeenth episode in the seventh season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on March 12, 1989, and is the hundred-and-sixty-seventh episode of the series overall.
Racist threats surface after the Keatons' black friends move into the neighbourhood.
When Steven's co-worker, Gus, and his family want to move into the neighborhood, the real estate agent reacts negatively, and then some of the neighbors also express their feelings. Steven calls a neighborhood meeting to discuss the problem.
•Tragically, the three actors portraying the Thompson family all passed away less than ten years after this two-part episode aired: burly John Hancock died of a heart attack at 51 in October 1992, feisty Rosalind Cash succumbed to cancer at 56 in October 1995, and promising young actor Keith Amos was felled by a severe asthma attack at only 36 in November 1998.
•Production assistant Robert Schanche appears in this episode.
•John Hancock reprises his role as Gus Thompson. Rosalind Cash plays his wife Maya.
•The plot seems unbelievable (even in 1989), but it was (and still is) probably more common than we might believe.
"All in the Neighborhood, Pt. 2" is the eighteenth episode in the seventh season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on March 19, 1989, and is the hundred-and-sixty-eighth episode of the series overall. The entire neighbourhood is catapulted into action when the Thompsons...
"All in the Neighborhood (Part 1)" is the seventeenth episode of season seventh of the American comedy series Family Ties and the twenty-fourth episode of the series overall. It was directed by Sam Weisman and written by Douglas Wyman. It first aired on NBC on March 12th, 1989. In this episode...
All in the Neighborhood: Part 2: Directed by Matthew Diamond. With Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman. The Keatons try to persuade friend Gus and his family not to move, despite neighbors who object to a black family moving in.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Matthew Diamond
- 1989-03-19
The Keatons fight against bigotry in their own neighborhood.
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